Seems our HowTo:, Why?:, UnBooks: and UnScripts: namespaces are...pretenders. They're not actual namespaces. They're just treated as such by convention. This means they are harder to maintain, and also are not directly searchable (y'know, on the search page. Go on, have a look. I'll wait. Do you see "Why?:" listed as a searchable namespace? No? Told you, didn't I. You never listen.)

But more importantly...the logos. My Internet "rides the short bus", so to speak. It's very very slow. So I have JavaScript turned off. Unfortunately, those faux-namespaces have their fancy-pantsy logos applied with JavaScript hacks. All I get to look at is the god-damned potato, instead of the Fantsy-Pantsy logos! Somebody worked very hard on those logos! This is highly irregular! I want to SEE those logos!

Fortunately, I'm told there's a solution: I come here, I bitch and whine about how HowTo:, Why?: UnBooks: and UnScripts: should be promoted to REAL namespaces, you good people vote "Yea"[1][2], a "community consensus" is formed, and at some point in the near future, a person from Wikia drops by and gives us our real namespaces with the click of her mouse.

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SHALL THE FOLLOWING BE MADE INTO ACTUAL NAMESPACES???

And the other ones: UnPoetia, Unquotable, UnDebate, and UnReviews... especially UnDebate; there may be relatively few of them at present, but the formatting and setup there is just weird, and having namespace-specific stuff could potentially make the entire thing a lot easier to deal with, including what it takes to make new ones. 1234~01:21, 16 October 2011

Meow. Because of Bizzeebeever, we cats can now finally talk. And thanks to that, I now support whatever he do 100 percent surely. This poll has something to do with racism right?OMG!!!It`s Cat the Colourful,Jesus Christ!!! 09:32 16 October 2011

Im just not sure. What exactly is in it for me? --ShabiDOO 09:59, October 16, 2011 (UTC)

Actually, that would be optimal... if we had the userbase and interest to pull it off, which we especially don't these days. >.< Unless you know something I don't... which you probably do. What do you know? o_O 1234~05:16, 19 October 2011

Whoa, whoa, whoa. Any more of this talk about turning 500 or so articles into "new wikis" and I'm officially withdrawing my support. Them namespaces would be fine as namespaces, until Uncyclopedia actually turns into Wikipedia. ~ BB ~ (T) ~ Wed, Oct 19 '11 5:29 (UTC)

He called me a bloke

But that's not the biggest problem... the biggest problem (OK, the second biggest, don't go there.) is that I can't make new namespaces if there are pages already in that space. So if I create "HowTo:", all current pages with the prefix will go "poof".

So, the pages need to be moved to "NotHowTo:" or something, then I can create the namespace, and then you can move them back. Anyone got a bot? -- sannse (talk) 19:21, November 3, 2011 (UTC)

From what I understand, the pages don't go poof; they just aren't accessible because the database is referring to them wrong afterwards. But the thing that gave me that impression also gave me the impression that there is a command to namespacify the pages directly. It just requires server access, or something (because apparently making it do that automatically is lower on the list of mediawiki priorities than making images rotatable). But don't any of you have server access? Or would that not work with your configuration anyway? Or am I mixing all of this up with something else entirely? Are you going to eat that? 1234~02:50, 4 November 2011

I'm fairly certain Wikia staff don't directly access the server and instead use weird and obscure extensions to do simple things, for whatever reason. Maybe people like having a GUI for comfort reasons. –SirSkullthumper,MD(criticize•writings• SU&W) 03:15 Nov 04, 2011

So...

Apparently I wasn't clear. I'm ready and willing to make the namespaces as soon as someone has botted the pages out of the way. tell me when you are ready. Thanks -- sannse (talk) 20:22, November 28, 2011 (UTC)

So after various grumblings at and by me, ZombieBaron and Lyrithya... I blackmailed a techy in to doing it instead. Let me know via the contact form of problems please -- sannse (talk) 01:06, November 29, 2011 (UTC)